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Twenty Years Of An African Slaver
Theodore Canot (1804-1860) was a French-Italian adventurer and slave trader. Brantz Mayer (1809-1879) journalist, produced his memoirs, notable for their vividness and...
Three Tales - Life, Chronicle
These stories are a daily-life portrait. The main character - with all its flaws - is not entirely imaginary, because she is a journalist who writes about everything: chronicle...
My Soul Cries
”She is Emily, Emily Marchionne: my life and my joy” in the book there are two interwoven stories between autobiography and romantic and dramatic tale. With an...
The Days Of My Life
Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant (4 April 1828 – 25 June 1897), was a Scottish novelist and historical writer, who usually wrote as Mrs. Oliphant. Her fictional works...
Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German writer and statesman.Hattie Tyng Griswold (1842 - 1909) was a 19th-century American author and poet...
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Cicero is one of the few personalities in Rome who got a first level political position thanks only to its education and qualities. Indeed he hadn’t either birth or family...
Jonathan Wild
The Life and Death of Jonathan Wild, the Great – novel, 1743, ironic treatment of Jonathan Wild, the most notorious underworld figure of the time.
Saint Patrick
Saint Patrick was a fifth-century Romano-British Christian missionary and bishop in Ireland. Known as the "Apostle of Ireland", he is the primary patron saint of...
The People Of The Abyss
The People of the Abyss (1903) is a book by Jack London about life in the East End of London in 1902. He wrote this first-hand account after living in the East End for...
